PubMed Search Strategies

This blog has been created to share PubMed search strategies. Search strategies posted here are not perfect. They are posted in the hope that others will benefit from the work already put into their creation and/or will offer suggestions for improvements. Librarians who wish to post comments on this blog or who wish to become authors are invited to e-mail me (Cindy Schmidt). I'm not posting my unmc.edu e-mail address here, but it's easy to find on the web : - ).

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

sodium oxybate -- keywords and MeSH

This search statement was designed to look for articles about the prescription variety of sodium oxybate, not the street drug.

("Sodium Oxybate"[Mesh] OR Oxybat* OR oxibato OR NSC84223 OR Gamma-hydroxybutyrate OR Wy3478 OR 4-hydroxybutyrate OR Alcover OR "Gamma-OH"[tiab] OR Somsanit OR Xyrem)

The following hyphenated and multi-word names were removed because they were not recognized by PubMed and were causing retrieval of irrelevant results:
NSC-84223
Wy-3478
Wy-3478
"NSC 84223"
"Wy 3478"

PubMed Search Strategies

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

sodium oxybate -- keywords and MeSH

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